[She barely manages to make him stumble or stop, and certainly doesn't get him to turn around. His fingers are patting his lips to check for blood, shoulders slightly hunched up, the other hand going into his pocket - she might as well not be there.]
I don't feel like it, Cat.
[His voice is flat, his tone distant and cold, still breathing back in some of the energy lost during their match. Where there had been the desire to provoke her and keep the fight going more intensely than ever now settles a sour calm. Something in his mind clicked and turned everything upside down when he saw her, challenging him (--he didn't see a challenge, he saw a miserable plea--) with a look that just made him... angry. It's the same anger that manifests in Cat through her outbursts, in a way; the kind that's about to reach the point of no return, leading Bass to gradually shut down until the violence in him simply erupts.]
You can stay here or you can leave with me.
[This is not something he or Fox agreed to, it's not even something he had in mind when he made his way to meet with her for the nth time, but the past few days have riled him up without him quite realizing it, increasingly plagued by the thought of Cat's descent and her blind rejection to his offers to pull her out. He doesn't like what it's doing to Fox, doesn't like what it's doing to Cat, and is only starting to realize what it's doing to him.]
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I don't feel like it, Cat.
[His voice is flat, his tone distant and cold, still breathing back in some of the energy lost during their match. Where there had been the desire to provoke her and keep the fight going more intensely than ever now settles a sour calm. Something in his mind clicked and turned everything upside down when he saw her, challenging him (--he didn't see a challenge, he saw a miserable plea--) with a look that just made him... angry. It's the same anger that manifests in Cat through her outbursts, in a way; the kind that's about to reach the point of no return, leading Bass to gradually shut down until the violence in him simply erupts.]
You can stay here or you can leave with me.
[This is not something he or Fox agreed to, it's not even something he had in mind when he made his way to meet with her for the nth time, but the past few days have riled him up without him quite realizing it, increasingly plagued by the thought of Cat's descent and her blind rejection to his offers to pull her out. He doesn't like what it's doing to Fox, doesn't like what it's doing to Cat, and is only starting to realize what it's doing to him.]